American Red Cross - In the Service of Interior - Christmas Boxes - Miss Dressler acts as Mrs. Santa Claus to returning soldiers. With the assistance of canteen girls of the Red Cross, Marie Dressler as "Mrs. Santa Claus" distributed upward of 6,000 gifts to soldiers and sailors at Pier No. 4 at Hoboken. This photo shows Marie Dressler in the midst of a group of boys who she has made happy

Photographer: Underwood & Underwood
American Red Cross - In the Service of Interior - Christmas Boxes

Marie Dressler - Canadian-American actress and comedian of silent and early sound film eras of the 1910s and 1920s, born in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada in 1868, began her career in vaudeville and on Broadway before moving to Hollywood in 1913. Dressler was a comic 'woman of a certain age'. Movies: "Tillie's Punctured Romance" (1914), "Dinner at Eight" (1933), "Emma" (1932).